Timberwolves Weather Nikola Jokic is 61-point triple double in 2ot

Denver – The Minnesota Timberwolves overcame a career-nba-best 61-point triple double power from Nikola Jokic survive Denver Nuggets 140-139 in two overtime Tuesday evening.

Jokic’s 61 points-NBA player in this season-also the most points in three times twice in NBA history. Jokic, who played 52 minutes, 38 seconds, also had 10 rebounds and 10 assists. After half -time he did not leave the court.

“Nikola came to me after the third quarter and said,” Coach, I’m good. Let me go there. I don’t want to go out. Just let me play, “said Nuggets coach Michael Malone. “He was in good rhythm, of course – 61 points, 10 assists, 10 rebounds, 2 stealing. The guy is superman.”

Jokic said, “The coach asked me several times (if I wanted to come out) but I felt good.”

Timberwolves sealed victory for a couple Nickeil Alexander-Walker Free feast with 0.1 left, closes a wild sequence in which Russell westbrook He stole the ball at one end in the final seconds, missed the layout and then fouled Alexander-Walker in the corner. The Timberwolves guard made two free throws and the third intentionally missed.

“He’s a person who hates,” Malone said about Westbrook. “So he doesn’t want to hear any of these things because he’s a perfectionist and it’s a competitor. And when he knew how I was doing it, he would probably put a lot on him. But we lost this evening. Denver Nuggets, we as a collective group lost the game tonight, not one player.”

Westbrook left the arena before the Denver dressing room was opened to the media.

“It is obvious that I feel terrible for Russs,” Malone said. “The last game we get a turn, we don’t cross, and then a foul. It wasn’t out of lack of effort or care.

“Sometimes it goes so, so we had to be strong. We must be resistant.”

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“It’s hard. You have two on one break,” Malone said. “As a coach I’m on the side line,” don’t go? “We have a layout.

Jokic was asked if he would talk to Westbrook about the sequence.

“Why? It happened. It’s basketball. I’m pretty sure he didn’t want a foul. It happens,” he said.

Anthony Edwards He led Minnesota with 34 points to go along with 10 rebounds and 8 assists. He had 10 points to enter the fourth quarter and scored 25 or more in seven consecutive games against Denver.

“He just took off, and that is what SuperStars does, and that’s why he is a strange person and a special player in this league,” Jokic said.

Jokic hit two free feasts with 13.9 seconds remaining to bind it to 112 in regulation. In the first overtime, it dropped to a float with 7.3 seconds to form it to 125.

“Nikola Jokic, he could be the best basketball player I have ever seen, except for me,” Edwards said. “It is incredible. MVP race is hard. I don’t know. He had 60. That’s crazy.”

The game had the intensity of the play -off and represented 21 lead changes. Timberwolves won six straight above nuggets, including playoffs, because Jokic became the second player in the history of the NBA, which lost with a 50-point triple double, followed Wilt chamberlain in 1963.

Timberwolves were without Call and Donte Forenzowho was Suspered one game of the league for their role in an argument against the court against Detroit Pistons Sunday.

Denver had no Jamal Murray (hamstring) or Michael Porter Jr. (Personal reasons).

Jokic completed 18 out of 29 of the field, including six 3-proofers. His 61 points were the second most in the game in the history of Nuggets (David Thompson had 73 in 1978) and gave up the opponent in Timberwolves.

At the end of the second overtime, when Jokic was fouled, followed by a wild game Jaden McDaniels During a jump ball. Jokic made one free throw to give nuggets leading 139-138.

Nuggets dropped to 18-3 at home when they were tied or leading after the first quarter. In the opening quarter they led 16.

Research ESPN and Associated Press contributed to this report.